I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
I'm not designed to interact with society.
Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
